Cheryl Methot, the mother of Jonathon Methot, who was shot early Monday morning in Biddeford, holds a phone with a photo of her son Friday. She said her son had struggled with prescription opiate addiction, but was working to get his life back on track, and “was doing really good.” Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer

BIDDEFORD — Police charged a New York City man with murder Friday in the shooting death of a 30-year-old Biddeford father next door to his West Cutts Street apartment on Monday.

Timothy Ortiz has been charged with killing Jonathan Methot in Biddeford. Courtesy of Cumberland County Sheriff's Office

Jonathan Methot was shot to death Monday next door to his Biddeford apartment. Courtesy of Hope Memorial Chapel

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Timothy Ortiz, 20, of Brooklyn was charged with killing Jonathan Methot of 68 West Cutts St. Ortiz is expected to make his first appearance in Alfred Superior Court on Monday. His attorney, Jon Gale, declined to comment.

While police have not released information about the circumstances of the shooting, Cheryl Methot said she last saw her son alive Sunday night, when he had two friends over to watch a football game.

Around 1 a.m. Monday, one of those friends burst into her bedroom screaming that Jonathan had been shot inside the apartment next door at 70 West Cutts St. One of his friends dragged Methot’s body onto a shared wooden porch outside.

“The last thing I’d think I’d see is my son lying on the porch, dead,” she said. “I’ve never seen so much blood.”

Cheryl Methot identified the residents of 70 West Cutts St. as Peter and Becky Quimby. No one was at home at the unit Friday, as police had still sealed the door with evidence tape, but a blood-soaked towel and bloodied carpet sat undisturbed on the front porch.

Contact information was not available for Peter or Becky Quimby, and they could not be located for an interview.

Cheryl Methot said there was heavy foot traffic in and out of the apartment at all hours of the day and night, and that Ortiz was among the visitors.

“He’d be there for a few weeks and then he’d be gone,” Methot said of the Brooklyn man.

Murders are relatively rare in Biddeford, a city of 21,355. There were no killings in 2015, two in 2014, one in 2013, and five total between 2002 and 2012.

According to Biddeford police, Peter Quimby was arrested in March at an unidentified West Cutts Street address and charged with aggravated drug trafficking, but there is no sign that the drug case against him moved forward, and the criminal record for someone whose name and age match Quimby’s gives no indication of the March 2016 allegations.

The owner of the duplex, Long Hang, according to city assessing records, could not be located for comment.

Ortiz, who has no prior criminal record in Maine, has been held since Monday at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland after he was found by Portland Police to be in violation of the terms of his probation related to a sex trafficking and drug charge from New York City.

After he appeared in court Friday on the probation violation, he was charged with murder in the Biddeford case.

Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine State Police, would not give details of the investigation, say whether police had responded to previous calls for service at that address, or discuss whether drugs were involved.

Methot, who was the father an 8-year-old boy, attended Biddeford High School and later earned his GED before spending several years assembling pallets at IFCO in Scarborough.

He had a criminal history in Maine dating to 2005. Most of the charges were misdemeanors, including a charge for operating under the influence, but he also was convicted of felony drug trafficking and furnishing scheduled drugs, state records show.

Methot’s mother said her son had struggled with prescription opiate addiction in the past, but that he was working to get his life back on track, and was attending drug counseling sessions regularly.

Jonathan Methot shared custody of his son with the boy’s mother, who looked after him on weekends, Cheryl Methot said. Although the couple had split about three years ago, Cheryl Methot said they worked together to care for their child without having gone to court over custody rights.

Methot had moved back in with his mother in January, and she helped care for his son.

Cheryl Methot said her son was a dedicated father who loved to play baseball or basketball with his son, or take their dog, Louie, for walks.

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right, race aside. which LePage couldn’t seem to manage as he talked about the issue.

maineman11111

“Murders are relatively rare in Biddeford, a city of 21,355. There were no killings in 2015, two in 2014, one in 2013, and five total between 2002 and 2012”

i grew up in a out of state town of 3500. there was one murder in 1936. thats it

by the way. the murder was on early monday morning. normal people were sleeping for work in the morning

BruceDog

I am sure that the PPH will point out how this supports Governor LePage.

KennebunkportPatriot

WGME WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23RD 2016

BIDDEFORD (WGME) — The Biddeford Police Department Street Crimes Unit (SCU) conducted a several month long investigation into drug trafficking in and around the Biddeford area.

On Tuesday, members of the SCU sought and obtained arrest warrants for 27-year-old Christina Moreland of Dorchester, MA, 37-year-old Peter Quimby of Biddeford, and 61-year-old James Ruane of Biddeford for aggravated trafficking of schedule W drugs.

Moreland was arrested in a vehicle stop on Route 111. Police seized 11 grams of crack. Moreland was on probation stemming from a previous trafficking conviction and a probation hold was placed on her by her probation officer. Bail was set at $50,000.

Quimby was arrested outside his home on West Cutts Street. Bail was set at $50,000.

CleanupME

Isn’t it strange that all defendants are currently free? Our justice system needs a tune up. We have become so worried about the rights of the criminal we forget the victims.

elvisisdead

The jails are full. They’re trucking inmates all over, to NH, to Two Rivers, to find beds. The guards are overstaffed and burned out.
They have to prioritize.
Besides, until one is proven guilty, there is the assumption of innocence. If they’re awaiting trial, they aren’t guilty. (Yet)
Wife beaters? Armed robbers? Child molesters? That(white) guy from Portland who choked and kidnapped the woman yesterday in Rockland? They need high bails.
Drug dealers, for all their sins, not so much.

Pinetree North

The difference, of course, is when the drug dealer is accused of murder, and is already on probation for other drug and sex trafficking crimes in our state. That guy needs to be kept under lock and key until his trial.

Pinetree North

The difference, of course, is when the drug dealer is accused of murder,
and is already on probation for other drug and s e x trafficki ng crimes
in our state. That guy needs to be kept under lock and key until his
trial.

CleanupME

Build more jails. Bring back capitol punishment and lessen the appeals process. Restore corporal punishment to prison. Let the guards run the prisons not the inmates.
You see we did all these things once and had a more orderly society. Until people like you got some power and ruined things.

We already have the highest prison population in the world and you want to build more with our tax dollars?

No thanks.

CleanupME

Well you must like crime or be a criminal. Most criminals do not change. Letting them out to victimize others is wrong.
One way of reducing the prison population is capitol punishment. It deters and reduces crime by attrition. For murderers only.

Midwinter

Many of our prison population are incarcerated for non violent offenses, many junkies. I remember reading a report about a decade about it cost Maine $132/day to keep someone locked up.

I don’t want to continue adding non violent offenders to our prisons that you and I (the taxpayers) will have to pay for.

elvisisdead

You’re arguing for a North Korean model for ht U.S criminal justice system.
Why do you hate this country, your neighbors and oppose accepted levels of general decency?

Why?
Is it self loathing?

CleanupME

Have you ever studied U.S. criminology in the 19th century? Or even the early 20th? It did the job, was not like North Korea, and people were safe. And all very American and constitutional until the libs took over the SCOTUS.

KennebunkportPatriot

They seek willing customers……………

CleanupME

Selling illegal substances is illegal regardless if the customer is willing or not. In fact the “customer” is also breaking the law. These are criminal transactions by criminals and the full force of the law must be brought to bear to enforce our laws.

elvisisdead

These guys are going to risk 20 years in prison or the very real threat of being murdered in a rip off by their own drug dealing associates to bring a product here they probably won’t be able to sell?
No matter what?
Is that what you’re saying?
You need to get out more.

CleanupME

Very few these animals get 20 years in prison. More like 10 and out in five or less. Since we stopped punishing criminals and started trying to rehabilitate them we have more repeat offenders.

elvisisdead

Minimum mandatories, 3 strikes..all these things either do exist and have for decades.
But..here we are. Here we’ll be.
Your ideas are stale and cliche.

CleanupME

Yeah. We’re here because of our immigration laws that allow all these people from Central and South America and the islands in here. They help bring the drugs into the U.S. of A. and they control the trade here.
We should leave them in their third world holes but people like YOU feel sorry for them and they end up here.

elvisisdead

Yes, that explains the parts of the country ravaged by meth, a drug that can be manufactured in any mobil home. One that is becoming the drug of choice in Maine’s thriving 2nd district.
And the trade is divided between black and Latin gangs, and white, motorcycle gangs(you’ll recall the ATF killing an outlaw in Old orchard a few years back), the Italian and Russian, Israeli, mafias. The “go to” guy in our dorm for XTC, Special K and other party drugs was a yarmulke wearing Israeli kid who had his “connections” in Brighton Beach.
No Islanders or Latinos in sight!!
Besides all that, can you imagine if these people had the product and no one wanted to buy?
Just imagine!

CleanupME

Besides being Alice in Wonderland you’re getting away from the issue. Heroin and Crack are the biggest problems in Biddeford.
The Latins and blacks control both those drugs.
No one ever said Meth wasn’t made by whites. It is.
Heroin is brought into the U.S. by the Mexican Cartels. Cocaine by the Colombians. What little drug trade the bikers are involved in is mostly in the Southwest U.S..
The Italian Mafia is legit now and has moved into much more sophisticated schemes. The Russians the same.

elvisisdead

You watch a lot of Discovery channel I see.
But ya, that’s not what real life is.
A Mexican catel or Crips member is not going to rent a house in Otisfield Maine or Limington or Bridgton.
They’d have a dime dropped on them faster than you can say “Out of place”.

Without the collusion and assistance of natives, none of this product would be on our streets.

CleanupME

Sure. They get an addict they supply to let them stay at their place. Same thing in Biddeford and everywhere else.
It doesn’t change anything. They still are breaking the law. Why do you want ghetto trash in Maine?

elvisisdead

We grow our own trash here.
“Ghetto trash” is just code.
Whatever happened to “out and proud” bigots?

RealityCheck81

“selling illegal substances is illegal regardless if the customer is willing or not”…..what? if the “customer” isn’t willing to buy drugs, the “customer” isn’t a customer.

CleanupME

It isn’t a matter of “Will”. The substance itself is illegal. So the transaction is not a legal transaction. Either party can be arrested for possessing the substance. Thus it is a criminal transaction by two people breaking the law.

elvisisdead

You just can’t stop sounding certifiable.

CleanupME

It’s the law stupid. You can’t have a legal transaction when the product involved is illegal and justly so. Both parties are criminals in the transaction.
Maybe you defend the drug trade because you get high yourself. You certainly sound like it most of the time.

Lil Devil

If it wasn’t readily available, it may prevent new customers though.

CleanupME

So that area of Biddeford has seen three murders by black, drug running, thugs from New York. We should have drug sniffing dogs at the train station and turnpike entrance. Profile and stop and frisk these clowns who move in here from the drug cities to the south. Does Ortiz have papers? Is he a Dominican?

elvisisdead

Who did they murder?
oh, that’s right. White, career criminal, thugs from Maine.
Jeez. You left that part out.
The “victim” in this case was 30, and had a criminal record from 2005. So in other words he’s been in the court system since he turned 19.
That makes him a career criminal.
You act like these “victims” are church deacons or girls scouts murdered by dark complected predators.
The drug game is unforgiving. Rip offs are normal. Violence is the norm. Mainers love their heroin and unlike meth, you can’t make it here. So here come the people from “down south”.

You’re a joke and so are your ridiculous opinions.

Pinetree North

Maine should definitely have K9 units at bus and train stations in Maine. The trains are also being used as drug conduits from other states. But no profiling needs to happen… dogs are impartial to skin color. They just go on chemical odors.

But prepare to be called names and belittled by the resident angry liberals. No useful dialogue will be permitted here.

elvisisdead

OH OH MAGIC FREE DOGS!!!
YESSSSS.
Do you realize it takes tens of thousand of dollars to train drug sniffing dogs?
And they, like all L.E, are very overstretched.
If you want to live in E. Germany, with dogs on the streets sniffing us over, fine.
Not me.

CleanupME

Well then go to Holland where drugs are legal and you can live in la la land all day.

elvisisdead

You know what I wish would be deported?
Passive aggressive, whiny, little bigots who cannot stay on subject.

You know any?

Pinetree North

Look in the closest mirror, chum.
You’re welcome.

maineman11111

BUY STOCK IN BINDERS!

elvisisdead

You miss the point entirely.
If Mainers weren’t endulging in the things these people were selling, they wouldn’t come
You can’t blame the supply without blaming the demand.
Trust me, METH is being made here by white Mainers and the state is busting a couple labs a week. The only reason they can’t do the same here is because you can’t grow poppi plants in cold weather.

elvisisdead

Sounds like a career criminal narcotics dealer had a dispute with another career criminal narcotics dealer and as these things often go, a life was taken.
If you’re seeing race or ethnicity here, you’re a bigot looking for an excuse to parade your ignorance in public.
This Summer a few miles down the road from me a couple of 50-something Maine hill billies got in an argument over a 6 pack and one ended up decapitated with a machete and stashed under a pile of rotting deer carcasses.
The fruit of Maine’s unspoiled, innocent, white virtue?

CleanupME

I am seeing race here and there is ample evidence to support me. You liberals don’t read the uniform crime stats that show that blacks and Hispanics have higher levels of violent crime per their populations than whites do. It’s irrefutable.
When confronted by the facts liberals make excuses for their comrades and say that we whites are unfair and prejudiced.
Not every black or Hispanic person is bad or a drug dealer or thug. But enough are to establish a reason to profile. Not to be mean. But to keep people safe. And that includes law abiding black and Hispanic people too.

the point is new yorkers, which are black, are makin matters worse.
heroin is NOT grown in maine. it is brought into maine, 99.999999% by NY/CONN blacks/Hispanics. without blacks bringing it into maine, there would be no heroin drug epidemic

blacks bringing heroin into maine caused the maine heroin epidemic. complicating the other drug problem epidemics white mainers have caused before heroin became a problem

Peter Cutler

Obviously another candidate for the Governor’s log book of out-of-state drug traffickers or is that the dreaded “profiling”? Even more disturbing is the establishment of a drug culture that is being aided and abetted here in Maine through selective lack of law enforcement and ineffectual treatment approaches such as methadone clinics and other “supportive” actions including the indiscriminate distribution of overdose antidotes and under-supervised “treatment centers” and the explosion of “medical marijuana”. The last and most fatal step toward chaos will be if the referendum approving the “recreational” use of marijuana becomes law.